%0 Journal Article
%T On the passage from local to global in number theory
%A Barry Mazur
%J Mathematics
%D 1993
%I arXiv
%X The author surveys the problem of piecing together integral or rational solutions to Diophantine equations (global structure) from solutions modulo congruences and real solutions (local structure).
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9307231v1